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QUESTION 1 25 MARKS Walvis Caterer Limited purchases raw fish from Ocean Fish Company and processes it further into fish fillets and fish fingers. The
QUESTION 1 25 MARKS Walvis Caterer Limited purchases raw fish from Ocean Fish Company and processes it further into fish fillets and fish fingers. The process can be described as follows: The raw fish is purchased from the Ocean Fish Company, after which it is cleaned first. During the cleaning process, the head, tail and scales are removed. It is normal that during the cleaning process a loss of 10% occurs. 80% of the 10% of this loss is in the form of waste that can be sold at a price of N$2 per kilogram. After the fish has been cleaned, it goes to the cutting process, where the fish is removed from the spine and cut into fillets. The fillets are already cut into the correct size. The fillets are then ready to be sold. Three-quarters of the output is in the form of fish fillets. The other quarter of the output of the cutting process, namely the spine and off-cuts are sent to the fish finger department. Here the spine and off-cuts are cooked to remove it from the bone. The cooked fish are then used to manufacture the fish fingers, covering it in bread crumbs. The bones are then sent to a separate process to manufacture fish meal. The fish meal is regarded as a by-product. The bones amount to 5% of the weight received in the fish finger department. During July 2017 Walvis Caterer Limited supplied you with the following production, cost and sales figures: Purchases: 12 000 kg fish at N$12 per kilogram Production cost: Cleaning process: N$10 020 per month fixed cost and N$2.00 per kg fish cleaned Cutting process: N$2 000 per month fixed cost and N$0.50 per kg fish cut Fish Fingers: N$6 000 per month fixed cost and N$5.00 per kg fish received Fish meal: N$297 per month fixed cost en N$1.80 per kg bones received Sales: Fish fillets: 9 000 kg at N$40 per kilogram Fish fingers: 2 300 kg at N$35 per kilogram Fish waste: 400 kg at N$2 per kilogram Fish meal: 125 kg at N$6 per kilogram There was no beginning or closing inventory work-in-process on hand and there was 2 000 kg fish fillets worth N$35 200 on hand at the beginning of the month.
Page 9 of 12 REQUIRED: 1.1 Prepare a schedule showing the allocation of the joint costs to the joint products for the month, if it is the companys policy to: (a) Use the Physical Units Method to allocate joint costs and the net realizable value of the By-Product sold is deducted from the cost of sales of the related joint products. (6) (b) Use the Net Realizable Value method to allocate joint costs and the net realizable value of the by-product produced is deducted from the production cost of the process from which the by-product occurs. (6) For all further calculations, use the information in 1.1 (b) above. 1.2 Calculate the production cost per unit (round to two decimals) for each joint product for the month. (4) 1.3 What will the closing inventory values of each of the joint products as well as the by- products amount to in the balance sheet at the end of the month (round total values to the nearest Dolar )? Show units and values. (4) 1.4 Determine the gross profit per joint product and in total for the company by preparing an income statement for each of the joint products and for the company in total for the month (round total values to the nearest Rand). (5)
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